Few cities make your heart race faster just by standing on their streets, but New York exerts an influence that stretches far beyond the city's limits. As Agatha Christie once said, "It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City, New York City is itself a detective story."
The cultural production of Spanish-speaking New York is closely linked to the Caribbean and to Latin America at large, but the city also plays a pivotal role in the work of a host of authors from the Iberian Peninsula, writing in Spanish, Catalan, and English. In many cases, their New York City texts ...
P. A. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, John Kieran
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Urban Ornithology is the first quantitative historical analysis of any New York City natural area's birdlife and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan's Central and Brooklyn's Prospect Parks have preliminary species lists, not revised since 1967, and the last book examining the birdlife of the entire New York City area...
